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Thursday, August 4, 2016

Keeping terrorist faces out of the papers does not prevent new attacks

The French paper Le Monde has decided to stop publishing pictures of
terrorists so as to deprive them of a hero status. The idea being,
terrorists gloat on getting exposure and to be known as martyrs after
their departure to paradise.

Other French papers are considering whether to follow the example, and
elsewhere in the West the discussion has started on the subject too.

At the same time, people have for some time been warning each other not
to share videos of the Islamic group ISIS on Twitter and Facebook,
especially those of executions and of foreigners in the group's
captivity.

This is to make sure the exposure is limited, and propaganda will not
reach those who might be vulnerable to the message of radical Islamic
groups like ISIS.

The question is whether it works that way. Can you really limit the
exposure, when a group like ISIS and others too have an active PR
policy?Read on...

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